Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town South Africa was opened in 1956 through public subscription as a memorial to soldiers lost in the Second World War. The suggestion that the memorial take the form of a children’s hospital was proposed by Vyvyan U.T. Watson. Mr Watson a prominent businessman had lost his first born and only son Peter Tennant Watson at about four years old to an outbreak of diphtheria in Cape Town.
affiliation
University of Cape Town, University of the Western Cape, Stellenbosch University